Libertatem Magazine’s TALENT ACQUISITION PROGRAMME

Libertatem Group is the parent organization of “Libertatem Magazine Publishers” which also completely owns and controls other publication houses such as “The Law Brigade Publishers” & “Creative Connect International Publishers”. These two publication houses together operate and publish 16 Legal Journals on specific subjects as well as contemporary issues. Apart from the above mentioned 3 publishing businesses, Libertatem Group also operates in Car Rental Services under the brand name of “Ghoomte Phirte” as well as Digital Marketing Services. Founded by two law students, Ankita Ranawat & Rahul Ranjan, in February 2015 with just one publication under its banner, Libertatem Group now expands to Magazines, Journals, Marketing Services and Car Rentals et al.

About Libertatem Magazine

“We’re here to ensure that you miss nothing that matters – from stories that make headlines across the world to those that affect your professional life.”

At Libertatem Magazine, we respect everyone’s right to speak. In today’s world, we think that if you do not know your rights, you are prone to exploitation. Hence, we strive towards creating an awareness among the people not just their rights, but duties as well. We also aspire to keep people informed by the latest happenings in the Courtroom which they would otherwise be unaware of.

Libertatem Magazine serves as a legal awareness resource for all, ranging from Students to Academicians to Practicing Advocates to a Common Man. Libertatem Magazine helps in the formulation of opinions and prepares an individual for a journey through our in-depth scrutinized content on a wide range of topics including political, legal and social, besides the matters of national & international significance.

We do not believe in selling what we think is “right” or what we think is “wrong” because we believe that we are no one to decide what is right or wrong for you. With this spirit, we try to facilitate creating legal awareness through various sections of our magazine so that “People” can themselves make an informed decision. We, at Libertatem, leave it to the people, nationally and globally, to interpret the information themselves. Hence, our USP is “let the people decide”

We are one of India’s rapidly growing English Monthly, with the magazine circulation of over 47 thousand across the nation and an online readership of over 1 million monthly.

Our team covers a wide range of sections including politics, education, business, technology & national and international affairs, besides others and publishes them under the various heads of “Articles”, “the Courtroom”, “Igniting Minds”, “Editorials”, etc.

About the recruitment

We believe “Awareness is the Key to Everything” and hence we strive to create Legal Awareness among the maximum number of people. With this line of thought we have started creating, publishing and promoting the content which generates legal awareness and in this endeavor we seek to engage more ignited minds with us.

The basic work profile includes:

Content development Team (Number of positions available – 30)

Creating content on the topics of national importance (strictly according to our magazine’s guidelines).

Content Developers will be divided into 2 groups, one for creating content on a monthly basis covering the entire development on a particular story (in around 1200 words +) and the other group for developing/publishing stories as and when they break out which would be comparatively smaller in length (around 500 words).

Working closely with the editorial and the publishing team for editing & publishing stories.

Research and analyze the truth behind a story and provide sufficient evidences for the same (which shall be kept in the magazine’s archives).

Members of this team would be responsible for creating short case briefs/ case report highlighting the cases which are of national importance. The word limit for the same would be300 to 400 words per case.

The members of this team will be working on around 6-8 cases a month (with 300-400 words per case). The cases will be allotted on weekly basis (generally on weekends) or on urgent basis as and when needed (such as in Nirbhaya’s case) which needs to be published immediately.

Members may be allotted cases based on their area of interest or courts (such as NGT or, Bombay HC or SC etc.) or on need basis.

The editing team is responsible for editing and proofing the contents developed by the Content Developers & the Courtroom team.

The editing team needs to edit all contents based on the customized guidelines for each categories which helps the magazine articles to be featured on the news portals and search results.

Should be flexible with changing work structure.

Marketing Team

Social Media Managers (Number of positions available – 20)

Marketing team members would be divided into different small teams based on different social media platforms and would be allotted promotion activity for contents of the Magazine as and when they appear.

They would be responsible for operating and maintaining social media profiles of the Magazine on respective social media.

Outreach Programme Executives (Number of positions available – 50)

Outreach Programme executives would be required to work closely with different law colleges and universities and bring in collaborations/ partnerships to the Magazine.

Work Profile will include contacting advertisers and sponsors in order to bring in Advertisement for the magazine. All materials will be provided by us such as brochures.

This work would be paid and the executive will be working on a commission basis. The commission may vary from 10% to 15% of the deal amount.

Number of Positions & Work Hours Involved

Team

Number of Positions

Expected Work hours

Content Development

30

10 hrs/month

The Courtroom

60

2 hours/week

Editing

15

2-3 hours/week

Social Media Managers

20

5-7 hours/week

Outreach executives

50

4-5 hrs/ week

Sponsorship & Advertisement Executives

20

4-5 hrs/ week

Perks

A Certificate will be provided at the end of 6/12 months tenure

Letter of recommendation will be provided for each member (unless they are fired.)

Flexible work hours

An enriching opportunity of learning and sharpening of research and writing skills and imparting awareness & knowledge among the common man as the motive of the organization is the welfare of the people at large.

Opportunity to interact and network with new people from Law School and University round the country and work with some of the best legal minds in India.

Work on exciting, meaningful and innovative projects and will learn skills which will complement your academic qualification.

Who Can Apply

We welcome anyone who is crazy enough to spread his message across the citizens of this country.

Anyone who is interested and has the enthusiasm to spread legal awareness among the common people of the nation;

Anyone who feels the media should report stories in an unbiased manner and should not go for paid contents;

Anyone who wish to be the face of change in the world of media and communications.

Remuneration

This talent acquisition is an invitation to join Libertatem Magazine on a Volunteer Basis. No Remuneration is to be paid for the work, however, certificates will be provided upon successful tenure.

Selection Procedure

The Selection Procedure is as follows:

Application for the position, the link to which has been mentioned at the end.

The application will be then forwarded to the Selection Board of the Libertatem Magazine which scrutinizes the applications and forwards the same to the respective team’s Vice President.

The VP of the respective team shall create a WhatsApp Group for better communication and allot articles (for content developers), cases (for courtroom team) and articles to edit (for editors) with a deadline. For Marketing Team, telephonic interview shall be conducted.

The applicants are required to submit their work before the deadline after which the work will be evaluated by the Selection Board.

Upon the completion of the review, email confirmations will be sent to all the approved applicants.

Note: The Magazine (or for that matter any media organization) works in a fast track manner. No one will get 3-4 days of time to write one short piece of article or edit it. Hence, you will be required to be prompt and fast with respect to your work to get selected.